• Annual lights display at SC zoo begins
  Riverbanks Zoo's annual Lights Before Christmas opens this weekend.

• More states add jobs, but many for temporary staff
  In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

• Three dozen people charged with cockfighting in SC
  Three dozen people have been arrested and accused of participating in cockfighting operations in two South Carolina counties.

• Jayson Williams plea hearing delayed indefinitely
  Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver.

• AP NewsBreak: SC lawmakers to take up impeachment
  South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.

• SC unemployment rises to 12.1 percent for October
  The unemployment rate in South Carolina rose nearly half a percentage point in October, returning to a record level of 12.1 percent set earlier this year, the state agency that calculates the rate said Friday.

• SC cops' response to call of armed man criticized
  Some residents are upset about the police response to a report of a man with a gun in a s South Carolina town where three people were shot to death earlier this month.

• SC State Farmers Market attracts 3 more vendors
  The new South Carolina State Farmers Market in Lexington County has attracted three more major vendors.

• Man pleads guilty to beating SC woman to death
  A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison in the beating death of his ex-girlfriend's mother last year.

• Massive generator's trip across SC almost complete
  Authorities say a huge generator being hauled across South Carolina to a North Carolina utility plant will be spending the next several days making it through one county.

• Boeing breaks ground for historic SC plant
  Work has officially started on building Boeing's $750 million aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina - the largest industrial investment in state history.

• Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
  When federal officials descended on this small South Carolina town to investigate a kickback scheme that had caught up the mayor and another official, they stumbled across a web of corruption they believe is deeper and more widespread through the county.

• Case of SC's '3 Hebrew Boys' heads to jury
  Three South Carolina men accused of bilking people out of more than $80 million lied about how they would invest their money, so it doesn't matter if investors knew it was risky, prosecutors said Thursday.

• SC jury finds '3 Hebrew Boys' guilty in scam
  A federal jury on Friday found three South Carolina men guilty of swindling more than $80 million from thousands of investors, many of whom prosecutors say fell victim to the Ponzi scheme because of their mounting debt.

• Man gets life for killing SC pawn shop owner
  A man who killed a South Carolina pawn shop owner, then fled to Canada to avoid the death penalty has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

• SC lawmakers to take up impeachment of governor
  South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

• SC man gets 2nd death sentence in crime outbreak
  A South Carolina man already on death row has been sentenced to die again.

• SC chief justice gets another traffic ticket
  South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Toal has paid a fine of more than $80 after getting a speeding ticket.

• Obese SC man dies after 8 months in home recliner
  When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him there, his wife said.

• SC woman charged with embezzling seized drug money
  Authorities in South Carolina say an office manager for a sheriff's office has been accused of embezzling around $500,000 seized from drug cases.

• SC sheriff's deputies seize 179 animals from home
  Sheriff's deputies in a South Carolina county seized 177 dogs, a cat and a bird during an investigation into animal maltreatment at a local residence.

• Currencies trader sentenced to 24 years for fraud
  A foreign currencies trader who cheated investors in more than 20 states to support a lavish lifestyle and buy presents for a girlfriend has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.

• Obese SC man dies after 8 months in same recliner
  Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man sat down in his recliner in March and stayed there for eight months until shortly before his death this week.

• South Carolina Editorial Roundup
  The Post and Courier of Charleston on local efforts to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham, Nov. 18:

• US survey shows southern counties most obese
  The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.